as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a blurry image in the foreground of the photograph
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Recent Examples of blurry
Just the same, the flip side of this is that baseball is notoriously fickle and often deceptive from one day to the next, with the line between coincidence and trend ever-blurry.
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Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
At the same time, the line between a bad habit of using tech several hours a day and a behavioral addiction can be blurry, especially for teens and young adults whose social lives, homework, and entertainment all run through the same devices.
—Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
Some of the roles might still be a little blurry.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
No wonder all these characters wanted to become assassins, Scott implies; they’re removed from reality by so many orders of magnitude that living, breathing fellow humans are just blurry images.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
At the same time, the line between a bad habit of using tech several hours a day and a behavioral addiction can be blurry, especially for teens and young adults whose social lives, homework, and entertainment all run through the same devices.
—Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
Some of the roles might still be a little blurry.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blurry
Adjective
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This year, the administration’s budget proposal doesn’t include a hard deadline for phasing out SLS and Orion, just the vaguer request to look for commercial alternatives.—
Sana Pashankar,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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There’s just sort of vague purple-ish themes throughout the special.—
Deputy Entertainment,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Unlike total solar eclipses, which reveal the sun's faint outer atmosphere, annular eclipses are still a form of partial eclipse and require proper eye protection to view safely.—
Ryan French,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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One of these experiment models, ABRACADABRA, employs high-sensitivity radio to capture the faint hum of axion’s oscillating magnetic fields thanks to the close cooperation of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Discernment is everything under this hazy transit.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Art from his personal collection fills the public spaces, and the rooms have red-stone baths, sofas detailed with luggage-style straps, and headboards painted in hazy ombres to match the sunrise.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Blurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurry. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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